mule是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 骡子，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He to whom Apollo vouchsafes the greater endurance, and whom the Achaeans acknowledge as victor, shall take the mule back with him to his own tent, while he that is vanquished shall have the double cup.'
-- He laid his hand on the mule and said, 'Let the man who is to have the cup come hither, for none but myself will take the mule.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
-- They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country.
-- Behind the mule there was a camel, with his big soft feet squelching and slipping in the mud, and his neck bobbing to and fro like a strayed hen's.
-- I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.
-- 'An-other time,' he said, 'you'll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting 'Thieves and fire!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mule was brought to the door, and I resolved to ascend to the sum-mit of Montanvert.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Afterthey had passed their tenth year, they were sent to old Daddy the plantation cobbler to learn his trade, or to Amos thewheelwright and carpenter, or Phillip the cow man, or Cuffee the mule boy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I per-suaded into my service, and, at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, no more do I. I am as bad as you in that respect; and I am a Mule too, which you're not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he had observed, from his station in the rear, that she sat her mule as if she were exhausted.
-- 'Not altogether mere fatigue, sir, for her mule stumbled to-day, and she fell from the saddle.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carcases of both whales had dropped astern; and the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair of overburdening panniers.
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